His illustration for the Wacky Packages 10th Series “Brute 88” card from 1974 sold at Heritage Auctions in 2016 for $23,900. Saunders’ Wacky work has sold at auction for thousands of dollars. The first Wacky Packages’ series in 1967 featured parodies created by Spiegelman and prolific pulp and commercial artist Norman Saunders, who continued to paint them until the 16th series in 1976. The artists who created these images were no slouches, either. Always eye-catching, the art on the stickers ranged from mild - like a duck replacing the old guy on the box of Quacker Oats - to delightfully off-putting, with faces that had popping veins and bulging eyes and in the case of “Hostile Thinkies,” snack cakes that looked like pink chunks of human brains. The parody names were amusing, but for a newly visual generation of kids, the pièce de résistance was the accompanying artwork. Now, 35 years later, that generation has matured into adults who can afford to nostalgically consume a deluxe volume brimming with that subversion.” In the foreword to the book, Wacky Packages (Abrams 2008), artist and author Art Spiegelman, who worked for Topps before becoming best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust memoir Maus, writes: “Wackies were a young child’s first exposure to subverting adult consumer culture.
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